Andrea, Natalie Fleury (Marquette DR Program goddess) and I are in Jersusalem taking part in a joint Marquette -ASU spring break trip to study conflict issues at a variety of levels here in the Israel. We have 30 students with us and are looking forward to our various excersions and we’re planning to blog about them. … Continue reading Conflict Resolution in the Holy Land – the Live Blog
Wired magazine reports that Nicaragua and Costa Rica are calling on the Organization of American States and/or the UN Security Council to mediate a border dispute. It seems that the Nicaraguan military “accidentally” invaded Costa Rica because of an error on Google Maps. According to the Wired story: Last week, Nicaraguan troops crossed the border, … Continue reading Nicaragua and Costa Rica Seek Mediation Thanks to Google Maps
Last week, I was delighted to welcome Lucy Reed, a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and co-chair of their international arbitration group as our inaugural speaker for our speakers series on Gender & Negotiation, funded by the University Centennial Celebration Fund to celebrate 100 years of women at Marquette. Lucy has an amazing background in both the … Continue reading Negotiation Advice from an International Arbitrator
Professor Alan Rau sent me a description of an interesting symposium on international arbitration that will take place in Houston on May 13-14: The University of Texas, along with the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the Houston International Arbitration Club, will be sponsoring a symposium in Houston on May 13-14 on the subject, “Arbitrators and … Continue reading “Arbitrators and National Courts: Conflict and Cooperation”
I participated earlier this week in a fabulous conference at Washington & Lee discussing the current system of investment arbitration and ways that this system could be improved. In an earlier post, I described how this conference was billed as a mix of pracitioners and academics and the panels were just that. On my panel, … Continue reading Designing New Processes for Investment Disputes?
Earlier this week, the New York Times had an article about how citizens of the Georgia (the country) were in a panic over a fake news broadcast that stated Russia was invading Georgia. Although the television show was intended as political satire, it was apparently so real (and close to home) that citizens believed the … Continue reading International Media and Conflict Resolution
In a wonderful example of academia working with practitioners, I am delighted to announce this conference: On March 29, 2010, Washington and Lee School of Law will host a Joint Symposium with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to explore the prevention and efficient management of investment treaty disputes. The event will … Continue reading Washington & Lee and the United Nations Host a Joint Symposium on International Investment and ADR
Following up to yesterday’s post on gender in different countries around the world, a student sent me a great article about how women in Mexico are dealing with the problem of their gendered context in which male cab drivers generally leer at and make comments about the women in their taxi. In the city of … Continue reading Pink Taxi Power
My last blog post about the conference in Istanbul is on gender. The first conference of this project was last May in Rome, resulting in a book, Rethinking Negotiation Teaching, and a set of articles for the Negotiation Journal. One of the purposes of these conferences is to encourage, if not mandate, cross-disciplinary author teams. So, … Continue reading Gender in the Mediterranean
As I wrote about last week, I was at a negotiation conference in Istanbul where we were given assignments to actually negotiate in the Spice Market. Melissa Manwaring, who used to work with the Program on Negotiation and is now a professor at Babson College, came up with the great idea of each person from her group of … Continue reading Does the Ayres Study Work in Istanbul?
